On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:51 +0000, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thursday 01 December 2011 19:31:04 Ian Jackson wrote:
>
>> Philipp Hahn writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] insufficient quoting
>>
> between "tap-ctl list" and xend/server/BlktapController.py"):
>
>>> As a quick work-around, the attached patch fixes the problem for me. That
>>> is, until tap-ctl changes it's output format.
>>>
>> Thanks, I have applied it.
>>
> Thanks for applying.
>
> On Thursday 01 December 2011 20:51:05 Ian Campbell wrote:
>
>> xend is deprecated. This ultimately means that xend will go away. If you
>> are dependent on these features then you need put effort into ensuring
>> that they become supported in libxl and xl.
>>
> For our forthcomming release of UCS-3.0 we really wanted to switch from Xend
> to xl, but be had to switch back to using Xend, because libvirt still lacks
> some important features like migration; see
> <
http://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html> for a comparison matrix. Back at the
> beginning of 2011 Univention sponsored Markus Gross to work on the xl-binding
> of libvirt,
>
Thank you for putting your money where your mouth is here!
> but after the end of his internship I have not seen that much
> work on the xl-binding in libvirt except from Jim Fehlig.
>
AFAIK Jim is the main man working on this stuff. Last I heard he was
working on migration but I don't know the status, Jim?
As you've probably noticed, I haven't had much time to devote to libxl
and the libxl libvirt driver :-(. Migration, and some other important
but missing features, are on my todo list, but not quite sure when I'll
get back to this work.
Regards,
Jim